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1) Black house
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force
...Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Entreated by his former lover, Caroline, to help protect her daughter from a depraved man who has been stalking her, staff investigator Dodge Hanley teams up with a small-town sheriff and enlists methods from his own shady past to find answers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Dare to face the most terrifying heights of suspense. From hospital murders to explosive court battles, the Women's Murder Club takes on their most harrowing challenge yet.
It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths-and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation...
It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths-and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher!
“Pure, escapist gold . . . Mr. Child’s tough talk and thoughtful plotting make an ingenious combination.”—The New York Times
Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man...
“Pure, escapist gold . . . Mr. Child’s tough talk and thoughtful plotting make an ingenious combination.”—The New York Times
Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man...
5) Wicked game
Author
Series
Colony volume 1
Publisher
Zebra
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years ago, wild child Jessie Brentwood vanished from St. Elizabeth's high school. Most in Jessie's tight circle of friends believed she simply ran away. Few suspected that Jessie was hiding a shocking secret-- one that brought her into the crosshairs of a vicious killer-- Two decades pass before a body is unearthed on school grounds and Jessie's old friends reunite to talk. Most are sure that the body is Jessie's, that the mystery of what...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A walk down the aisle, a resort hotel, a drink on the beach...for these unlucky couples, the honeymoon's over.A newlywed couple steps into the sauna in their deluxe honeymoon suite--and never steps out again. When another couple is killed while boarding their honeymoon flight to Rome, it becomes clear that someone is targeting honeymooners, and it's anyone's guess which happy couple is next on the list.FBI Agent John O'Hara is deep into solving the...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Jack Reacher races to solve the perfect crime in the fourth novel in Lee Child’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.
DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO!
Across the country, women are being murdered, victims of a disciplined and clever killer who leaves no trace evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to an apparent motive. They are, truly, perfect crimes. In fact, there’s only...
DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO!
Across the country, women are being murdered, victims of a disciplined and clever killer who leaves no trace evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to an apparent motive. They are, truly, perfect crimes. In fact, there’s only...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Cassie Kramer and her younger sister, Allie, learned the hazards of fame long ago. Together, they'd survived the horror of a crazed fan who nearly killed their mother, former Hollywood actress Jenna Hughes. Still, Cassie moved to L.A., urging Allie to follow. As a team, they'd take the town by storm. But Allie, finally free of small-town Oregon, and just that little bit more beautiful, also proved to be more talented--and driven. Where Cassie got...
9) The surgeon
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A top trauma surgeon helps to solve a mystery.
Author
Publisher
Nightfire
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House. "The new face of literary dark fiction." -Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes "The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." -Stephen King In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street...
Author
Series
Terminal list volume 1
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller. On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece's entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush that also claimed the lives of the aircrew sent in to rescue them. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming,...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In the most extraordinary journey Ann Rule has ever undertaken, America's master of true crime has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Green River Killer, who murdered more than forty-nine young women. For twenty-one years, the Green River Killer carried out his self-described "career" as a killing machine, ridding the world of women he considered evil. His eerie ability to lure his victims to their deaths and hide their bodies...
13) 1st to die
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Brown/Grand Central
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Four crime-solving friends face off against a killer in San Francisco in the Women's Murder Club novel that started James Patterson's thrilling series.
Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle.
But the...
Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle.
But the...
14) Hour game
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A series of brutal murders darkens the Wrightsburg, Virginia countryside. The killer, replicating notorious murders of the past, seeks to improve them, while taunting the police by leaving watches on the victims set to the hour corresponding with their position on his hit list. The tension is further increased by a second killer who is copying the crimes of the first.
15) Honeymoon
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In his sexiest, scariest novel yet, James Patterson deftly confirms that he always "takes thrills to the next level" (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review).
When FBI agent John O'Hara first sees Nora Sinclair, she seems perfect. She has the looks. The career. The clothes. The wit. The sophistication. The tantalizing sex appeal. The whole extraordinary package-and men fall in line to court her. She doesn't just attract men, she enthralls them.
So...
When FBI agent John O'Hara first sees Nora Sinclair, she seems perfect. She has the looks. The career. The clothes. The wit. The sophistication. The tantalizing sex appeal. The whole extraordinary package-and men fall in line to court her. She doesn't just attract men, she enthralls them.
So...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has pursued her as the lone surviving "Black-Eyed Susan," the nickname given to the murder victims because of the yellow carpet of wildflowers that flourished above their shared grave. Tessa's testimony about those tragic hours put a man on death row. Now, almost...
17) Mary, Mary
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Vacationing in Disneyland with his family when he receives instructions to investigate an actress's murder outside of her Beverly Hills home, FBI agent Alex Cross learns that the attack was the latest in a series of celebrity killings linked to the elusive Mary Smith, who proves more challenging than Alex anticipates.
18) Cross fire
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 17
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As Detective Alex Cross contends with a D.C. sniper, FBI agent Siegel, and his upcoming wedding to Bree, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
NYPD detective Jack Kanon and Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson traverse Europe in hot pursuit of a serial killer, one who sends a postcard before each murder and was responsible for the slayings of Jack's daughter and her boyfriend.
20) Alex Cross, run
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 20
Publisher
Little Brown
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
If Alex Cross stops running, he will die . . . three serial killers are on the loose, and they want revenge.
Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will recognize him-by giving himself a new face.
A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently...
Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will recognize him-by giving himself a new face.
A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently...